Saturday, 26 September 2009

• I am ridiculously behind on reading blogs, both Xanga and non, so don't take it personally if I should know something that I don't. I'm not doing the best job juggling all that I have to do: work, school, meetings/activities, time with roommates, keeping up with friends on Facebook and online journals...It doesn't seem like much, but the work/school thing is the worst. I subbed all day on Thursday. I normally can't sub Thursday afternoons (and I thought that I couldn't sub at all that day, but they called me) because I work. Well, I got some time off work to do an observation for class, so naturally, I worked up to the observation time and then went to my other job. Brilliant. And then I took the job all day on Friday. I get kind of paranoid that if I turn down a sub job (this was the first this year I've accepted out of four calls) then they won't call me. And subbing is fun most of the time. And I specifically want to work in the SEI and ECDD (emotionally impaired and early chilidhood) classrooms, so I figure, the more I sub, the greater the chance that I'll end up in one of those two places. But I need to remember that I am a half time graduate student with a long commute on Wednesdays and I work part-time already (one week is full-time an the other is less than 20 hrs, so it balances out). I also have been actually being a good staff, which means not much time for homework because I'm interacting with the consumers and taking them places. The result is that I am behind on reading almost beyond repair. Tomorrow is homework day. I would catch up almost if I had the whole day to read, but I have a paper as well, which will take a lot of time because I don't have enough confidence back to not stare at the page for several hours before getting it done. Okay, that was a long self-centered paragraph.

  In other news, my roomates are engaged!!!!! I took care of their dog while they went away for a romantic time last weekend. My roommate called me on Friday and said that my other roommate had proposed. I kind of had an idea that was going to happen because she told me not to tell him that she suspects he's going to propose. And then his father came over to drop something off, and he asked me not to tell her that his father stopped by. I am very happy for them though. Then yesterday, my roommate asked me to be one of her bridesmaids! I've never been in a wedding before. And none of my friends my age are married, so it's going to be a first-time experience. I couldn't believe she asked me. That helped my self-esteem a lot and reinforced that people don't hate me.

  Speaking of that, I was looking through an old anxiety workbook where we rated anxities, and "afraid that people will hate me" was an 87 out of 100. Some things take a while to change.

  Football has not been good. UM's been winning and MSU's been losing. I hope ND can pull this one off. They're up 17-3 on Purdue in the 3rd quarter.

  Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow. That's the plan. I have more things to write, and I really need to write more.

  Oh, and I'm officially a grad student! I had lots of trouble registering because apparently I used the wrong program code on my application. You'd think since they had the last half of the summer that'd it be fixed in time for the start of school, but oh well. At least they didn't decide not to admit me. I was afraid I was going to be the first case of being accepted to the program but not the grad school.

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